Love on board

Shawn L Johnston sjohnston
Mon May 17 11:55:34 PDT 2004


On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:45, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2003 02:02 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:01:57 -0600 "Andrew L. Gould"
> > <algould at datawok.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > So yes, he had a hand in many of today's circumstances; however, I
> > > choose to disassociate today's SCO from Ransom Love's Caldera that
> > > created eDesktop 2.4. (Ahh, the memories of my early newbiness.)
> >
> > Speaking of which, I was wandering through a MicroCenter store just
> > yesterday and found a copy of Caldera OpenLinux between the RedHats
> > and SuSEs.  Shades of yesteryear.
> 
> So my question is, if you bought that and loaded it up, would you be 
> guilty of violating some SCO license?  <g>
> And could you get the tech support advertised on the box?

The way I would read that is you could run it without threat from SCO
since it is their product and it is based on the 2.2 series kernel
instead of the 2.4. I don't think you would get support on it though
since its past its support end of life date.


Shawn



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